Before Slobodan
Milosevic was kidnapped and flown (apparently by the RAF)
to The Hague 'Tribunal,' Djindjic and Yugoslav President
Vojislav Kostunica and others in authority in Belgrade
said Yugoslavia would get huge amounts of foreign aid if
it extradited Slobodan Milosevic. Now Djindjic says:

"By
putting no conditions for the extradition we wanted
to show our willingness to be integrated into the
international community."

"No
conditions" = no promises.

Before the
kidnapping, the SPS charged:

"For the leaders of a country to tell
the people in that country that they should extradite
patriots in exchange for money from the forces which
have bombed that country - is an outrage.

"But for leaders of a
country to pretend that they are getting money from
the bombers when they know perfectly well they are
not - to tell the people that they should support the
jailing of their patriots in exchange for money which
these leaders know does not exist - this is the worst
treason.

"The present
authorities in Belgrade are guilty of treason."

"No conditions." In
other words the claims that aid was actually promised
were lies. The SPS accusation was correct.

B. Purpose Of The
So-Called Donors Conference

On 29 June, the
International Monetary Fund (IMF) convened a conference
of the big banks that claim Yugoslavia owes them money.
This creditors' meeting was falsely named a "Donors
Conference.'

According to
publicity hype coming out of the creditors conference
Yugoslavia had been 'granted' $1.2 billion (U.S.).
Actually, money was promised as 'credits' (loans) not
gifts. Regarding these loans, Djindjic says:

"In August we should
be getting the first installment, 300 million Euro.
Suddenly we are being told, that 225 million Euro
will be withheld for the repayment of old debts which
in part were accumulated during Tito's time. Two
third of that sum are fines and interests, accrued
because Milosevic refused for ten years to pay back
these credits. We shall get the remaining 75 million
Euro in November at the earliest. Such are the
principles in the west, we are being told. This means:
A seriously ill person is to be given medicine after
he is dead. Our critical months will be July, August
and September."

In its May 29th statement, the
SPS said:

"...One thing no
Donors' Conference has ever, anywhere in the world
done is give 1 billion dollars - or in fact any money
- to a country which supposedly owes these banks
money. If they do lend any money on paper they
immediately take it away.

"That is, a little
money may be lent with one hand, but it will be
immediately taken away with the other hand, to 'repay
the debt.'

"This has already
happened with millions of dollars supposedly 'given'
to Yugoslavia by the international community. As is
reported in a text by Dr. Prof. Michel Chossudovsky:

"'The [IMF] Board
approved a loan [of] US $151 million under the IMF's
policy on emergency post-conflict assistance in
support of a program to stabilize the Federal
Republic of Yugoslavia's economy and help rebuild
administrative capacities. Of this amount, the [Belgrade]
authorities will draw... US $130 million to repay the
bridge loans they received [from Switzerland and
Norway] to eliminate arrears with the IMF.'' (Quoted
in 'Economic Terrorism,' by Dr. Prof. Michel Chossudovsky)

"In other words, the
authorities in Belgrade borrowed money from
Switzerland and Norway to pay money owed to the IMF.
Then they borrowed money from the IMF - and that was
used to pay Switzerland and Norway!

"This is a con game."

So. Djindjic and Kostunica are
salesmen for a con game.

C. "If I Fall, You Lose $10
billion."

Djindjic says:

"We are trying here to
reform the country and propagate a pro western course
in spite of the NATO-bombardment...

"...I warn the west
earnestly: If my government breaks down this would
cost the international community 10 billion dollars."

What is Djindjic talking about?
If the West were planning to grant aid to Yugoslavia,
wouldn't the fall of Djindjic's pro-Western government
mean the West would not have to give aid - thus saving
money? Here's a clue. He says:

"100,000 [workers]
will loose their jobs as a consequence of the
transformation of the economy which was set as a
precondition for credits by western donors."

Aside from the almost humorous
fact that Djindjic persists in describing the bankers who
met June 29th as 'donors' even though he admits they
aren't going to 'donate' anything - aside from that,
consider what Djindjic is saying: that in exchange for
the phony donations, his government has agreed to "economic
transformations" that will throw 100,000 people out
of work.

Before the 'Donors Conference,'
the SPS charges that the 'Donors Conferences' would:

"...plan how to sell
Yugoslav property so they [the bankers] can get back
the money they claim they are owed as quickly as
possible.

"To whom will they
sell Yugoslav industries to get their money? To
themselves basically.

"How much will they
sell it for? Pennies on the dollar.

"How much of the so-called
Yugoslav debt will get paid in this way? Very little.

"What will happen to
the industry that the 'Donors' scoop up in this
fashion? Wherever such industries might compete with
some industry from the 'Donor' countries, the
factories will be closed down....

"This has happened in
dozens of countries.

"Donors' Conferences
helped plan the devastation of the economies of:

"* Ukraine - went from
the breadbasket of Europe to being dependent on
Western surplus "food"

"* Bulgaria - industry
stripped and shut down

"* Russia - wages fell
almost 90% overnight

"* Vietnam - after the
"Donors' Conference" its industry was
stripped to raise the money to pay off 'debts'. This
was particularly vicious because those 'debts' had
been accumulated by the puppet regime of South
Vietnam. South Vietnam incurred the 'debts' when it
bought weapons from the U.S. to fight Vietnamese
patriots!

"That's what a Donors'
Conference does."

So what's with this $10 billion
dollars? It represents a conservative estimate of how
much the West can extract in the process of buying up
Yugoslav industry at super low prices, stripping it,
closing it down, and turning Yugoslavia into a colony of
supremely impoverished workers. Djindjic is warning the
West: if you dump me, or let me fall, you will lose the
chance to get this money.

What a monster this man is, and
what monsters these bankers are, these exalted leaders of
the New World Order.

Z. Djindjic makes a muted
attack on Yugoslav President Kostunica in the interview:

"Zoran Djindjic: Socialists and
radicals could certainly count on an increase of
their votes if there were elections. Add to that
Yugoslav President Kostunica with his skeptical
attitude towards the west and constant warnings that
the promised moneys will not arrive

"Der Spiegel: .... and
who calls you a putschist for having extradited
Milosevic and thus having brought shame over the
country.

"Zoran Djindjic: Some
more loyalty from his side would certainly do me good.
There is a danger however that through such quasi-
patriotic statements anti-West anger will be
reawakened in the population."

But Kostunica is not the creator
of popular anger. This anger is the natural response of
ordinary people who passionately hate the kidnapping of
Milosevic, both because he has led the resistance to NATO
and because this kidnapping makes NATO Yugoslavia's
highest judicial authority. As those who remember their
history will recall, it was precisely Serbia's refusal to
allow Austria to take over Serbia's judicial processes
that led Serbia to reject Austria's ultimatum before
World War I.

It is not true, as Djindjic
suggests, that his government does not face massive
demonstrations until September. Such demonstrations are
taking place already. The interviewer notes that already:

"Der Spiegel: The
socialists are obviously regaining terrain. "

This is an understatement. If
elections are held soon, the DOS forces will be thrown
out of power, period.

E. One final point.

Djindjic (now) says he and
Kostunica were not actually promised thirty pieces of
silver in exchange for Milosevic. So why did they fight
so hard to turn the former President over to The Hague?
Says Djindjic, they did it "to show our willingness
to be integrated into the international community."
That is nonsense.

In the first place, the SPS
government that Djindjic and Kostunica overthrew Oct. 5
didn't shun relations with Western countries. They just
tried to conduct such relations on a basis of equality.

In the second place, the
'international community' that Djindjic and Kostunica
have been trying to please - President Bush, Secretaries
of State Albright and Powell, U.S. Ambassador Montgomery,
Cook from England, Fischer and Schroeder from Germany,
the big international bankers, and so on - this very
small, Imperial part of the worldwide 'international
community' has no intention of 'integrating' Yugoslavia
on a just basis. Rather, this 'community' sees Yugoslavia
as a) a source of quick profits and b) a critical
strategic obstacle to its growing onslaught on the
countries of the former Soviet Union because c)
Yugoslavia is the home of some very annoying because very independent
people - the Serbs.
In the view of said community, Yugoslavia must be
impoverished; its Army must be drastically weakened; Army
and government must be dominated by quislings; and
eventually it must be occupied by the same terrorist
forces that NATO has brought to power in Kosovo and
unleashed against Macedonia and southern Serbia. (4)

In this way, Washington's
'international community' hopes to crush the Serbian
people as a political force. If that happened, NATO would
be much closer to fully consolidating its control over
the Balkans, the southern flank of its always-escalating
attack on the states of the former Soviet Union.

These plans, like all such
Imperial plans, underestimate ordinary people's capacity
for resisting injustice, all over the Balkans.

======================

"Down to
Zero"

======================

The Djindjic interview mixes
truth and lies, sometimes in the same sentence. For
example, our gentleman says:

"Why should I run the
risk of my family being killed by a car bomb if
everything here is being scaled down to zero anyhow?"

The Lie: The 'car bomb' stuff is simply a slur:
the Socialists have never resorted to terror. Quite the
contrary, they have been fastidiously committed to the
rule of law. How else explain that when the Socialists
led the government they did not use their position to
arrest Djindjic and Kostunica for receiving "suitcases
of cash" from the U.S. prior to the Sept. 23, 2000
Presidential election.

Rather, the shoe is on the
other foot. It was Djindjic and Kostunica who came to
power through classic Fascist tactics. It was their
people who burned Parliament and destroyed the very
ballots which they claimed showed Kostunica had more than
50% of the votes in the Presidential elections. It was
their thugs who beat-up pro-Socialist managers in
newspapers, TV and radio stations. It was their forces
who violently evicted their opponents from reporting and
editorial positions in all the news media. It was
Kostunica who went on TV after watching the parliament
burn and said, "This is a great victory for
democracy."

It is widely known in
Yugoslavia that Djindjic is well connected with organized
crime, so perhaps the 'car bomb' stuff comes from
personal experience. But as far as his political
opponents go, what he should fear from them is a) that
they will regain power and b) that he and Kostunica will
be arrested for a long list of felonies, starting with
the crimes of the coup d'etat October 5th and certainly
including the sending of Milosevic and others to The
Hague 'Tribunal."

The Truth:

Apart from the melodramatic car
bomb claptrap, the above-quoted sentence does include a
bit of truth, namely the phrase:

"...if everything here
is being scaled down to zero"

"Scaled down to zero."

That is precisely what the U.S.,
Britain and Germany have in mind for Yugoslavia. But even
as he admits this truth, Djindjic lies, for he suggests
this is something new, related to his 'discovery' about
the so-called Donors Conference.

In fact, before and after the
Sept. 23 election, Prof. Michel Chossudovsky and I and of
course many other people pointed out that the very
program - the program, the consciously worked out plans -
of the Djindjic/Kostunica DOS coalition called for the
impoverishment of ordinary Yugoslav people.

This was explained in the well-known
article, 'The International Monetary Fund and the
Yugoslav Elections,'
by Prof. Michel Chossudovsky and me. That article was
reprinted in the Swedish daily, 'Aftonbladet,' after
which a Balkans 'expert' named Magnusson wrote a long
refutation of our views. Answering Magnusson,
Chossudovsky and I quoted from the G-17 economists, the
DOS 'thinkers' who presently control the Yugoslav
central bank. The G-17 people made clear that their
approach would amount to economic 'shock therapy' (their
phrase) and that it would be so 'radical (their word)
that it had to be instituted quickly to prevent effective
political opposition.

"The first task of the new government
will be to lay down the foundations for lasting
stability...[which] implies the launching of a
radical programme of structural adjustment and, most
importantly, sustained political support to
stabilization and economic reforms.

"Immediately after taking the office,
the new government shall abolish all types of
subsidies. This measure must be implemented without
regrets or hesitation, since it will be difficult if
not impossible to apply later, in view of the fact
that in the meantime strong lobbies may appear and do
their best to block such measures... This initial
step in economic liberalization must be undertaken as
a 'shock therapy' as its radical nature does not
leave space for gradualism of any kind." ('[G-17]
Program of Radical Economic Reform' ('Everything We Wrote Comes from
Official Sources' by Michel
Chossudovsky and Jared Israel
at http://emperors-clothes.com/debates/data.htm
)

So of course, Djindjic and
Kostunica and the rest of the DOS boys knew all along
that their program would be devastating; they just
neglected to inform ordinary people. And now Djindjic
would like everyone to believe the lie that his economic
nightmare is a) the fault of Milosevic 'loyalists' who
want him to fail and b) the result of betrayal (i.e.,
change in policy) by the West. As if he and Kostunica and
the boys from G-17 didn't spend the last 10 months
destroying all the economic mechanisms installed by the
previous government to protect working people and
Yugoslav industry; as if the DOS government had not spent
10 months cooperating with Western financial interests to
hand Yugoslavia over, on a platter, with apple in mouth.

Djindjic is just discovering
that Washington and its junior partners want to rape
Yugoslavia? Did he think these Imperial governments
poured tens and hundreds of millions of dollars into his/Kostunica's
Presidential election campaign because 'it is saintly to
give?'

By turning Milosevic over to
The Hague tribunal, Djindjic and Kostunica infuriated the
Serbs and other loyal Yugoslavs. Djindjic fears that
Washington plans to sacrifice him to assuage this popular
anger and therefore he has granted the following rather
incriminating interview as a warning to the West to
"Protect me or you will lose lots of money and I
will tell a lot of secrets."

Serb premier Zoran Djindjic
says he feels betrayed by the west. In the interview he
complains about grotesque maneuvers blocking the payment
of international reconstruction aid and warns of new
crises in the Balkans.

Der Spiegel: You took the
risk of extraditing Milosevic to The Hague - Tribunal.
Did it pay off?

*Zoran Djindjic: "I
warn the west"

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Djindjic: By putting no
conditions for the extradition we wanted to show our
willingness to be integrated into the international
community. But I must confess that I'm shocked by the
farce of "western help" which should have
amounted to 1,2 billion dollars.

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Der Spiegel: ........ what do
you mean by "farce?" This is quite an amount of
money.

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Zoran Djindjic: It would have
been better if the donors-conference had not taken place
and instead we had been given 50 million DM in cash. We
are trying here to reform the country and propagate a pro
western course in spite of the NATO-bombardment - and in
Brussels there are ten bureaucrats who act according to
the principle: If the light goes out, apply the brakes. [Translators
note: I don't know such a proverb in German. But then,
I'm Swiss.]

-------------------

Der Spiegel: Can you explain
this in detail?

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Zoran Djindjic: In August we
should be getting the first installment, 300 million Euro.
Suddenly we are being told, that 225 million Euro will be
withheld for the repayment of old debts which in part
were accumulated during Tito's time. Two third of that
sum are fines and interests, accrued because Milosevic
refused for ten years to pay back these credits. We shall
get the remaining 75 million Euro in November at the
earliest. Such are the principles in the west, we are
being told. This means: A seriously ill person is to be
given medicine after he is dead. Our critical months will
be July, August and September.

-------------------

Der Spiegel: Do you fear a
collapse of the government

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Zoran Djindjic: If we do not
immediately get a financial injection we will have
demonstrations in September at the latest together with
social unrest, since we could not fulfill our promises.
330,000 families live on an income of 40 DM a month; 600,000
refugees are a great burden for our budget and 100,000
will loose their jobs as a consequence of the
transformation of the economy which was set as a
precondition for credits by western donors.

There is no investment, there
is no work, no construction. On the other side
Milosevic's socialists are still in important positions
in the economy and want the country to sink into chaos

-------------------

Der Spiegel: The socialists are
obviously regaining terrain. Can they again become a
danger for the government coalition of the DOS-democrats?

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Zoran Djindjic: Socialists and
radicals could certainly count on an increase of their
votes if there were elections. Add to that Yugoslav
President Kostunica with his skeptical attitude towards
the west and constant warnings that the promised moneys
will not arrive

-------------------

Der Spiegel: .... and who calls
you a putschist for having extradited Milosevic and thus
having brought shame over the country.

-------------------

Zoran Djindjic: Some more
loyalty from his side would certainly do me good. There
is a danger however that through such quasi- patriotic
statements anti-West anger will be reawakened in the
population. In which case, I would not exclude the
possibility that the first part of the aid package might
be paid to a new government under Seslj, the Radical
leader. I wanted to establish priorities with the economy
and at the same time to lessen other problems. And I warn
the west earnestly: If my government breaks down this
would cost the international community 10 billion dollars.

-------------------

Der Spiegel: Will there be a
new war?

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Zoran Djindjic: There will be
crises in the Vojvodina, in Montenegro, in Kosovo, in the
Sanjac and in Southern Serbia. The cooperation with The
Hague Tribunal will not exist anymore and as always
hundreds of thousands of refugees will start to migrate.
But for such crises there would be money in the budgets
of the western governments. Nobody will ask himself:
Could one have avoided the crisis? Everyone will join in
singing the tune that the Balkans are not calming down.
What we need is sincere help and not empty statements of
sympathy.

When I was in the opposition
the EU had promised us 3 billion DM for the overthrow of
Milosevic. Where is this money?

-------------------

Der Spiegel: You offered to
resign if the extradition of Milosevic to the Tribunal
failed. Will you throw down everything if the western
finance ministers do not give in?

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Zoran Djindjic: I cannot
constantly speak to our population about western aid if
we do not see any signs of it here. Thus I'm loosing my
credibility and cannot stabilize the country. Why should
I run the risk of my family being killed by a car bomb if
everything here is being scaled down to zero anyhow?

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Der Spiegel: Will you extradite
General Mladic to The Hague Tribunal if he should once
again stay in his Belgrade apartment?

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Zoran Djindjic: Should all the
problems of this region be settled on my back? I hope I
will not encounter him.